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Making Commons Dynamic: Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation book cover

1st Edition

Making Commons Dynamic Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation

Edited By Prateep Kumar Nayak Copyright 2021
382 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future. Focusing on... Read more

Part I: Introduction: Setting the Scene

1. Framing Commons as a Process: The Rudiments of Commonisation and Decommonisation

Prateep Kumar Nayak and Fikret Berkes

Part II: Roots of Decommonisation

2. The Dynamics and Performance of Marine Tourism Commons (MTC) in the Karimunjawa Island Marine National Park, Indonesia

Patricia Dorn and Simron Jit Singh

3. The Cascading Effects of Coastal Commonisation and Decommonisation

Jeremy Pittman

4. Governing Fluvial Commons in Colonial Bihar: Alluvion and Diluvion Regulation and Decommonisation

Vipul Singh

Part III: What Enables Commonisation?

5. Five Key Characteristics that Drive Commonisation: Empirical Evidence from Sri Lankan Shrimp Aquaculture

Eranga Kokila Galappaththi and Iroshani Madu Galappaththi

6. Vicuña Conservation and the Reinvigoration of Indigenous Communities in the Andes

Gabriela Lichtenstein and Carlos Cowan Ros

7. Commoning and Climate Justice

Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins

8. Understanding Groundwater Common-Pool Resources: Commonisation and Decommonisation of Cenotes in Yucatan, Mexico

Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado

Part IV: Commonisation and Decommonisation as Parallel Processes

9. Commoning and the Commons as More-Than-Resources: A Historical Perspective on Comcáac or Seri Fishing

Xavier Basurto and Alejandro García Lozano

10. Concurrent Processes of Commonisation and Decommonisation of Guadalquivir River (South Spain)

Sherman Farhad

11. Creating a Commons for Global Climate Governance: Possibilities and Perils in the Paris Climate Agreement

Craig A. Johnson

12. Migration and the Commons: Recommonisation in Indigenous Mexico

Daniel Koolster and James Robson

13. Decommonisation–Commonisation Dynamics and Social Movements: Insights from a Meta-Analysis of Case Studies

Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Gustavo García-López

14. Decommonisation and New-Commonisation of Mountain Commons in Northern Pakistan

Shah Raees Khan and C. Emdad Haque

Part V: Closing

15. Governance and the Process of (De)Commonisation

Derek Armitage, Evan J. Andrews, Jessica Blythe, Ana Carolina Esteves Dias, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Jeremy Pittman and Sajida Sultana

16. Commonisation–Decommonisation Perspective: Lessons for Practice, Policy and Theory

Prateep Kumar Nayak

Biography

Prateep Kumar Nayak is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada.

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